Personally, I prefer the constant bit rate. Certainly vbr is preferable to joint stereo in most cases but again, I have done many tests with a variety of music passages and several instruments and have not been happy with the results. So, while vbr does save a little space on your drive, disk space is so cheap these days that for the money it is not worth the sacrifice in quality. I am speaking of the CDEX ripper here and if there is a vbr option with other rippers, I have no comment there. For many, I suppose ripping options boils down to what you hear. I generally rip at 192 kbps but for some classical music if I know I'm going to be listening to the piece frequently have begun ripping at 224 kbps. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 12:47 PM Subject: Re: Ripping Settings
Yes, I'd recommend using VBR to get the best results in the smallest file size. Joint stereo is only really used if you are ripping at extremely low bitrates so I would avoid using this. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Petraccaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 3:57 AM Subject: Ripping Settings > I'd like to hear what people think about using VBR and joint stereo. > Plus or minus, please. > Thanks very much in advance. > > > > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
